Marie Dell Molina's Obituary
MOLINA, MARIE HONEYCUTT first child of Luther Dell Honeycutt and Eddie Mae Shafer Honeycutt, both of Gladewater, was born on September 8, 1922 in Big Sandy, Upshur Co., TX in a farmhouse on the Old Big Sandy Road and passed away of heart failure surrounded by her family in Dallas on July 3, 2013. She was raised in Gladewater, Texas, attended Gladewater Schools and graduated at 16. During WW II she was the receptionist at Camp Fannin Army Base training center (now in Tyler, TX), where she met and married Captain Edgar Robert Molina on September 18, 1944 in Marshall, TX. Ed was a Group Vice President of the Ford Motor Company during his career and they lived in New York City, Ann Arbor and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Cap Ferrat in the South of France, Kronberg Taunus, Germany, London, and Mexico City. Marie was a member of the DAR and the Daughter’s of the Republic of Texas. After the death of her husband on 1981, she moved back to Gladewater. She was on the Gladewater Cemetery Committee, Pres. of the DRT Chapter, in the Garden Club, organizer for Gusher Days, and enjoyed many years of companionship with her fellow childhood retired and widowed friends. She moved back to Dallas in 2001and lived with her youngest son Richard and his family, two miles from her son Stephen’s home in North Dallas. Her grandchildren knew her as possibly the most generous grandmother of all time. Marie Molina led a glamorous storybook life all over the world, had hundreds of friends and was well liked in every community where she lived. She is survived by her sons Stephen and Richard, and their wives Susan and Debi, their children Kay, Tim, Wyatt, Jeff, Jonathan, and one great grandchild, Miller Molina; and, her brother Bob Honeycutt and his children Jan Parizek and Bobby Honeycutt, and their families. Services will be at 10:00 AM on Monday, July 8, 2013 in Restland Wildwood Chapel. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Gladwater Texas 300 West Upshur Avenue Gladwater, Texas 903-845-2171
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